Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Autun with Nevers Date of Publication_1749

Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Autun with Nevers Date of Publication_1749This map includes French town plans after Belleforest on one sheet: Autun in Burgundy and Nevers in Bourgogne. They are from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth century, printed over 45 year period between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first accurate surveys of many towns) and was inspired in part by the scope of Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis

1753 and 1772

The founder of the business

with spine partially defective (although barely affecting text)

Dutch text to verso

somewhat rubbed and worn

light toning where previously mounted and framed

Bees issuing from a German hive represent the scions of the nobility

together comprise the first collection of town plans of the British Isles

Two English printers dipped a toe in the vernacular atlas market at approximately the same time with pocket editions of the Ortelius atlas: ‘These two little books were the earliest world atlases to be published in England and the earliest world atlases with English text’

while a mailed fist emerging from the North Sea delivers a further devastating blow (presumably representing the Imperial Navy’s High Seas Fleet

published in various editions c

Views of two towns on the Bay of Naples